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ricard · 15th Jul 2018, 9:18 pm

The reels on your instagram page look very similar to the smaller Armour reels (the one on the right on the picture a bit down on this page: https://www.smecc.org/wire_recorder_care_&_repair.htm) that were fairly common among many consumer machines such as Webster-Chicago, or the Swedish Luxor. Your reels look like they hove some form of cogs on the inside of the hold though.

I measured the (smaller) Armour standard reels I have, and the outside diameter is 71.3mm, the hole 41mm and the thickness 15.6mm. If this matches the diameter of the spools for the Agaphone it could be that they adopted a standardized spool inside the magazine, which if would make it easier (both then and now) to procure wire.

15th Jul 2018, 9:18 pm	#48
ricard Octode Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Lund, Sweden Posts: 1,632	Re: Agaphone Wire Recorder The reels on your instagram page look very similar to the smaller Armour reels (the one on the right on the picture a bit down on this page: https://www.smecc.org/wire_recorder_care_&_repair.htm) that were fairly common among many consumer machines such as Webster-Chicago, or the Swedish Luxor. Your reels look like they hove some form of cogs on the inside of the hold though. I measured the (smaller) Armour standard reels I have, and the outside diameter is 71.3mm, the hole 41mm and the thickness 15.6mm. If this matches the diameter of the spools for the Agaphone it could be that they adopted a standardized spool inside the magazine, which if would make it easier (both then and now) to procure wire.